HEAD AND HOW TO GET IT

Just a sample from the ol' sketchbook, this page focusing on heads of all shapes, ages and sizes. Can you pick out the one head to rule them all?



Practice, kids. To even get as good as little old me, you've got to stick to it. Try to draw something--anything--every day. Little things like this page make the bigger, more grand pieces of art work. Like, say, this chubby New Jersey mobster.

Red the Yeti as painted by Dan Brereton

So Dan Brereton created this family of supernatural adventurers and called them The Nocturnals (see www.nocturnals.com) and eventually did this contest where a fan could submit his/her idea for who should be the new Nocturnal and my entry won.

The prize was this nifty painted image of my character (forgive the tiny file size, I seem to have lost the bigger one):

RED THE YETI

Red the Yeti is a character I came up with while doodling in a sketchbook and this is the first place he appeared. He's a laid back kind of guy who likes soda, Johnny Cash songs and long walks in the woods.



Later the same year, there was a contest in PREVIEWS catalog about creating a new NOCTURNAL (a supernatural group of crime fighters created by Dan Brereton), so I entered this little guy in the contest. Dan picked him as the winner. Prize was a nifty painting of your character (which I'll have to post around here sometime when I can find the file).



I've developed him further in the years since, but have yet to completely crack his story.






Red the Yeti copyright Gary S. Lee